For more information, please see a previous study and sermon on John 9:13-41.
Crossword Puzzle (✞-word)
Crossword Puzzle Answers
- Light Jesus is the ___ of the world who provides spiritual illumination so we may truly see/understand (Jn 8:12; cf. Jn 3:19-21).
- Sabbath In the Pharisees’ eyes, it’s problematic that Jesus heals on the _____ (Jn 9:13-16; cf. Ex 20:8-10).
- Division Ironically, in the gospels, the Prince of Peace often causes ____ (Jn 9:16; cf. Lk 12:51-53)
- Kick Out (Two words) The Jewish authorities would ___ ___ anyone who acknowledged Jesus as the Christ (i.e., the Messiah) (Jn 9:22; cf. Jn 9:34).
- Blind The man was once physically ____ (Jn 9:1f.). Those who refuse to listen to the Lord, are spiritually ___ (Is 6:8-10, 42:18-20; Mt 13:13-15; Jn 9:39-41).
- Truth Giving glory to God entails telling the ___ (Jn 9:24; cf. Jos 7:19).
- See Jesus allows the man to ___ in more ways than one: physical eyesight and spiritual insight (Jn 9:25f.).
- Father Unlike the once blind man (Jn 9:30-33) and Nicodemus (Jn 3:2), the Pharisees could not see that Jesus had come from the ___ (Jn 9:29; cf. Jn 1:14).
- Sin The once blind man says that God does not listen to those who live in ___ (Jn 9:31; cf. Pr 15:8, 29, 28:9; Is 59:2; 1 Pet 3:7, etc.). The Pharisees claim that he was born in ___ (Jn 9:34; cf. Jn 9:1-3).
- Son Of Man (Three words) The once blind man eventually believes in Jesus, the prophesied __ __ ___ (Jn 9:35-38; cf. Dn 7:13-14; Mk 14:61-64; Lk 19:10).
- Judgment Jesus came into the world primarily for salvation, but also for ____ (Jn 9:39; cf. Mt 25:31-46; Jn 3:16-21, 5:22-23, 12:47-48; Ac 10:42, 17:30-31).
- Signs In John, Christ’s miracles are called ____(Jn 9:16; cf. Jn 2:11, etc.), for they are signals indicating a new direction: the salvation of the Kingdom of God (Jn 9:25; Is 29:18, 35:5-6, 42:6-7)
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